A cutting-edge exploration of the ancient roots of goodness in civilization, arguing that our genes have shaped societies for our welfare and that, in a feedback loop stretching back many thousands of years, societies have shaped, and are still shaping, our genes today. For too long, the scientific community has been overly focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: o...(展开全部)

An “exhilarating” (Irish Times) and “ambitious” (The Guardian) account of the ancient inheritance that made us who we are―and is now driving us to ruin. Why do humans everywhere believe in ghosts? How might our tendency to imitate one another be contributing to the climate catastrophe? And does our deep evolutionary past impel us to vote for strongmen? In 1987 Harvey Whitehouse...(展开全部)

The ancient inheritance that made us who we are—and is now driving us to ruin. Each of us is endowed with an inheritance—a set of evolved biases and cultural tools that shape every facet of our behavior. For countless generations, this inheritance has taken us to ever greater heights: driving the rise of more sophisticated technologies, more organized religions, more expansive ...(展开全部)

乔纳森·罗森伯格，南佛罗里达大学心理学副教授，情绪和情感实验室负责人。他的文章发表在《科学美国人》（科普杂志）《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》等知名杂志上。2013年，罗森伯格发起了走出黑暗的运动，倡导全国范围内开展有关抑郁的对话。

罗伯特•达尔（Robert A. Dahl，1915—2014），耶鲁大学政治学杰出荣休教授，曾任美国政治学会主席，著有《民主及其批评者》《多元主义民主的困境：自治与控制》《多头政体：参与与反对》《谁统治：一个美国城市中的民主与权力》等。 牟硕，法学博士，现为天津师范大学马克思主义学院副教授，主要研究方向为民主理论。

罗伯特•达尔（Robert A. Dahl，1915—2014），耶鲁大学政治学杰出荣休教授，曾任美国政治学会主席，著有《民主及其批评者》《多元主义民主的困境：自治与控制》《多头政体：参与与反对》《谁统治：一个美国城市中的民主与权力》等。 牟硕，法学博士，现为天津师范大学马克思主义学院副教授，主要研究方向为民主理论。

罗伯特•达尔（Robert A. Dahl，1915—2014），耶鲁大学政治学杰出荣休教授，曾任美国政治学会主席，著有《民主及其批评者》《多元主义民主的困境：自治与控制》《多头政体：参与与反对》《谁统治：一个美国城市中的民主与权力》等。 牟硕，法学博士，现为天津师范大学马克思主义学院副教授，主要研究方向为民主理论。

The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage m...(展开全部)

In this collection, Alice Munro takes mainly the lives of women, and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure and virtuous as it seems - as in her title story, it can be needy and murderous.

During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to t...(展开全部)